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“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.”
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“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
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“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
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“Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses.”
― The Essays: A Selection
― The Essays: A Selection
“To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.”
― On Love
― On Love
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